Ireland’s greatest contribution to horticultural technique: the lazy bed for potatoes.

Today in the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter:

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“We want the best for the country, but we think the voters are ignorant pillocks so we lie and tell them what we think they want to hear to make sure they vote for us”: how Diodotus’ speech in the Mytilene Debate in Thucydides anticipates Starmer’s Labour.

Thucydides knows everything about everything part 1283.

thesphinxblog.com/2024/04/08/ecl…

Turning up on Masterchef with homemade plates, special Masterchef-themed props etc. is trying WAY too hard and not really getting the spirit of the thing.

Memo to self: chicken and wild garlic curry is a bit too heavy on the alliums; perhaps 50/50 with spinach, or just add more coriander?

Even Godzilla has been brainwashed by the ideological structures of Western exceptionalism?

*Deep breath*... Since it's Professors' role to lead, this week I've written about the vexed topic of academic mental health (and my own mental health) for Voices of Academia. The gloom through which the sector is trudging is palpable: voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its…

A collage by me of my Favorite Things About Briton - cars planes football kings and ME. Only US of A is better for cars and planes IN THE WORLD.

The world is burning, and government MPs are busy sending explicit pictures of themselves to total strangers who imply that they shagged them on some previous occasion.

Today, Google has a 90% search market-share. They got it the hard way: they cheated. They spent tens of billions in order to ensure they are the default behind *every* search box you encounter on every device, every service and every website:

pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not…

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There is simply no way that the “current” assessment of risk to a university’s finances, campuses, courses or material components of those courses can match the internal risk analysis of those universities.

WANKERS..